How the Brain Works

A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on the Human Brain

The cognitive neurosciences are a rapidly developing field. From early efforts to localize psychological functions in the brain using neuropsychological data to modern functional brain imaging research, our understanding of how the human brain works is growing exponentially. At the same time, however, it is becoming increasingly challenging to integrate this rapidly expanding knowledge into a comprehensive understanding of brain function. This wikibook discusses fundamental principles of human brain function emerging from the cognitive neurosciences. It aims at providing students and scholars with a broad insight into various perspectives on brain function.

(This wikibook will be the result of course work in a seminar held in the winter term 2016/2017.)

Contents

1. Test Chapter
2. The Segregated Brain: Localization of Brain Function
3. The Integrated Brain Part 1: Intrinsic Functional Networks
4. The Integrated Brain Part 2: Connectomics
5. The Hierarchical Brain
6. The Rhythmic Brain
7. The Noisy Brain
8. The Predictive Brain
9. The Conscious Brain